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Cancer Treatment, Oral Health and Teeth Whitening
While the common side effects of cancer treatments are already known, experts want to emphasize that more than one-third of people treated for cancer develop complications that affect the mouth.
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Experimental drug showing promise
As the search for a cure for cancers continues, a new drug, crizotinib, is showing some success in treating a specific type of lung cancer. Crizotinib targets a protein present in a mutation and this …
Provenge, First Ever Cancer Vaccine Approved by FDA
The FDA has approved the first cancer vaccine ever, one that would help prostate cancer patients live longer with less of the harsh and debilitating side effects of chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery…
New Viral Cancer Treatment May Help Treat Deadly Lung Cancer
A new viral treatment that destroys cancer cells but leaves normal cells unaffected may help patients suffering from a particularly deadly type of lung cancer. The viral treatment Reolysin will be use…
Psilocybin, Mescaline, LSD, and MDMA May Provide Relief of Depression and Anxiety in Cancer Patients
NYU (New York University) and Johns Hopkins University are now conducting different studies to see how psychedelic or hallucinogenic drugs affect depression and anxiety in cancer patients. Some of the…
Raloxifene and Tamoxifen Lower Breast Cancer Risk for High Risk Women
There is good news for women at higher risk for breast cancer. Two new drugs, tamoxifen and raloxifene have shown excellent results in reducing the risk of developing breast cancer in high-risk post-m…
Dealing Drugs: The Chemicals of Chemo and How They’re Administered
Drugs Will Set You FreeOriginally uploaded by mknobilThere are over 100 different chemotherapy drugs, each with its unique properties for killing cancer cells, each requiring its own method of deliver…
What Is Chemotherapy? A Basic Overview of “Chemo”
© IndyDina with Mr. WonderfulChemotherapyHow does one write in an entertaining fashion about a subject as serious as Cancer and Chemotherapy? In this case, perhaps there is no real "entertainment…
Cancer hospitals depend on travel nursing to fill vacancies
There are a number of cancer hospitals around the world which have been facing shortage of nurses and for this very reason the concept of travel nursing came into force where nurses travel to work tem…